Why the long delay in posts?

Allow me to just apologise to those of you who have wasted many precious minutes checking for updates to my blog as it's been sitting idly most of the time...why the slow and long delay in updating my blog? Again, rest assured that I'm not abandoning my blog, but it's just that I don't seem to be able to take the initiative to blog lately..but since Simon did a very nice post on his to-do list, I decided that I ought to come out with ..... a not-to-do list! Okay, not exactly original here but what the heck, I'll just give it a shot :D

Not-to-do List of Nov-Dec '06

1.Do Nothing
Ah yes, if there's one thing that I'll try not to do this holidays is to do absolutely nothing..nothing in this sense means to let the holidays fly by without keeping track of what exactly happened at the very end of it..it's too cliched to go "Aiyo, whatever happened to the holidays man? So fast over liao?" year after year after year after year, wishing that the holidays were just only starting when school's about to start again......

2.Leave Justice League Alone
Heck no! I must find a way to finish that whole 12 GB of 50+ episodes by this holiday the very latest..then I can back it up to DVDs cause it's occupying precious fresh estate on my hard disk drive. I must say that it's an enjoyable watch in more ways than one..sure, it's nowhere near modern -day animes in terms of storyline development or art quality (think HD-quality hits like Gundam or Appleseed..or even Vandread) nor does it exude the immediate charm and coolness of recently popular animes like Bleach or The Melancholies of Suzumiya Haruhi, not to mention its opening soundtrack is rather bland and the dull 3D-2D intro sequence doesn't really help to discard the notion that it's a kiddy Sunday morning cartoon..but it does make for a surprisingly relaxing watch and I've always liked the way how Superman can punch his enemies with enough brute strength to launch them crashing into walls and pillars. And Green Lantern is cool!! It's definitely interesting to see him bond with Hawkgirl after squabbling through the first dozen episodes. I'll find a way to finish it one way or another..

3.Leave my drawings alone
Another area that I hope to improve on actually.this holiday I must really find a way to brush up my drawing skills as it's been stagnant for more than a year I believe...not to mention learning how to use Photoshop to its full potential as I'm in the school editorial board next year. I've always been hugely impressed by those people who can come up with brilliant works of art using just Photoshop and a scanner..take the example that this pic below that I really like :D I'd give almost anything to be able to draw like this.......

4.Be content with my grand-daddy printer
I so definitely must get my hands on a new all-in-one printer/scanner/copier by this year-end...my current printer serves as nothing more than an annoying printer with lousy prints other than being the occasional footstool. I'm hoping to land a good deal in the coming PC Fair or maybe poke around at auction sites like eBay or Lelong for bargains..anyone with a scanner or printer to spare? :D

5.Keep textbooks tucked in a dark corner of the cabinet
Sad to say, I've got lots of bucking-up to do cause Form Six just isn't as easy as what I thought it would be..I figure I'll need to do truckloads of exercises if I really want to go for flying colours for my STPM's result. Already, I can think of a hundred and one things to do and studying ranks way, way down there at the bottom in my task hierarchy. Chemistry is a killer and it doesn't help when our country's education system is so stuck-up and inefficient. I mean, is passing exams really the whole point of education? It does seem to me that that's the case, more so fortified by my teacher's remark this morning during extra class that "you don't have know how the formula is derived, you just have to know how to use the formula to answer questions". So what, all we do is just processing the data then? If everyone did that, how could the formulas possibly be discovered in the first place then? Is it any wonder then that our graduates are always deemed pariahs when compared to overseas graduates like those from the UK for example...

6.Keep out of touch with my friends
Many of the friends that I made while in national service have probably long since forgotten my name I suppose, seeing that I did not really make much effort to contact them after we parted ways at the end of the camp. To make things harder, they either live of study far away from my place (Subang) so it's next to impossible to visit them for say yumcha or something for someone like me who can't even drive yet..